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bjbj Often when students come to ask me about our program they love everything about films
and maybe they are, you know, just fanatics about science fiction films or horror films,
but they don t really know how to connect that with academic study, and they re coming
to me to ask some questions about that. And I m always delighted to see those students
and help them to understand that, not only can they obtain a first-class university education
as a Film Studies major, a Film Studies minor, a Film Studies double major, but they also
might find that they have some pretty nice job prospects. We have a lot of alumns working
in the industry, in Southern California, in North Carolina, doing all sorts of things
from being behind the camera to screenwriting to editing. Students in the film program get
a really solid foundation and training in all aspects of film. Our faculty in English
teach courses like Introduction to Film, which is a very comprehensive introduction to analyzing
narrative films, we have writing about films where students learn about film criticism,
a more journalistic approach, they will take a course in screenwriting and a film production
course where they make films on 16mm film which is becoming quite a rarity these days.
I think my favorite part of our program and what students get to do is the special topics
courses we offer every semester. We have rotating topics classes. I teach, for example, a class
in the horror cinema, in the horror film. We have classes on directors, Hitchcock and
Truffaut, contemporary American directors, different genres, different historical periods.
It s a really exciting time in Film Studies to take the modes of inquiry, the kinds of
methodologies we use and realize that film study scholars have a lot to offer our contemporary
world in terms of how visually oriented everything is, how we now click on screens and we expect
to see images with everything and that s really a really recent phenomenon. [Content_Types].xml
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